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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED CALDWELL, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

SOCKET-TIP FOR FLEXIBLE TUBING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,367, dated April 8, 1890. Application filed August 27, 1889- Serial No. 322,117. (No model.)

To on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED CALDWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Socket-Tips for Flexible Tubing, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a socket-tip made of rubber in one piece, provided with hard and soft portions, as hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of my improved socket-tip. Fig. 2 represents an exterior view of the same.

In the accompanying drawings, A is the socket-tip, which is made in one piece of rubber, the shank a being vulcanized to a hard condition, while the socket portion b is made soft rilbber in one piece, substantially as described.

ALFRED CALDWELL.

Witnesses:

SOCRATES SOHOLFIELD, 7 JOHN S. LYNCH. 

